more susceptible on prednisone?

[bronxmom2]

Hi, my ds is 8 days into a one-month course of prednisone.

 

Dr. Latimer switched him from full strength (300/mg daily) to prophylactic (200/mg twice weekly) dose of zithromax, which has made me uneasy... because my understanding is that steroids further weaken the immune system.

 

Now I have a bad cold. I don't think it's anything more than a cold, and my son does not seem sick, but we all know how these kids manifest illness...

 

My instinct is to bump my son back up to a full strength dose of zithromax, which I can easily do because Dr. Latimer gave me a full year's worth of rx for the prophylactic dose.

 

I am really nervous about a stupid cold undermining the effects of the prednisone.

 

In fact I pulled him out of school just to try to keep him from getting sick.

 

What do you guys think, should I give him the treatment dose of zith?

[dcmom]

I will be interested to see what others say. We did daily zith during at least the first two weeks of the steroid burst. This was with Dr L. DD was also in a new symptom flare at the time, so that may be why.

[bronxmom2]

Thanks, I made an executive decision and upped his dose to treatment dose while he's getting the steroid.